Where does “entre” come from?

Enter comes from Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrare, meaning to go inward, derived from the preposition intra meaning within.

entre (English): Archaic spelling of enter

Definitions

  1. Archaic spelling of enter

Ancestry of “entre”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishenterTo go or come into an enclosed or partially...
2Middle EnglishentrenTo enter to move into an enclosed or demarcated space
3Old Frenchentrerto enter
4Latinintrōto enter, go into, come in, get in, penetrate
5Latinintrawithin; inside; during; less than
6Latininterus
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énterosinside, within
8Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix

Words derived from “entre

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -teros
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